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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| Article. | Taken. | Adulterated. |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 186 | 6 |
| Cream | 4 | 0 |
| Butter | 1 | 0 |
| Meat | 18 | 0 |
| Meat, cooked | 1 | 0 |
| Beef, minced | 6 | 1 |
| Brawn | 3 | 0 |
| Sausages | 41 | 7 |
| Sausages, cooked | 19 | 0 |
| Sausage skins | 1 | 0 |
| Prawns | 2 | 0 |
| Fish paste | 12 | 0 |
| Preservatives | 5 | 2 |
| Seasonings | 2 | 1 |
| Vegetables, tinned | 2 | 0 |
| Whisky | 2 | 0 |
| 305 | 17 | |
| Prosecutions | 3 | |
| Convictions | 3 |
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria.—Scarlet fever showed a rather
higher incidence in 1927 than in 1926—the number of notifications
being 179 as compared with 140, whereas there were only 92 notifications
of diphtheria as compared with 116 in 1926. Seventythree
per cent, of the cases of scarlet fever and eighty-eight per
cent, of the cases of diphtheria were removed to hospital. The
former disease caused one death and the latter six. Scarlet
fever still continues to be of a mild type, and the policy of removing
to hospital large numbers of the sufferers is of doubtful public
health value; many cases could quite well be nursed at home and
more accommodation in hospital would thus become available for
severe cases of measles and of whooping cough.